{"id":356120,"date":"2026-07-29T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356120\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:11:14","slug":"i-75-standoff-suspect-appears-before-lee-county-judge-wearing-a-neck-brace-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356120\/","title":{"rendered":"I-75 standoff suspect appears before Lee County judge wearing a neck brace | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The suspect accused of causing an hours-long standoff that shut down I-75 in Lee County appeared before a Lee County judge on Tuesday by video on an iPad from his hospital room, wearing a neck brace and speaking only briefly.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing was for an out-of-county warrant issued by Pinellas County, where prosecutors have charged Ladavion King with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with the fatal shooting of a St. Petersburg sanitation worker.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Devin S. George confirmed King understood the proceedings and informed him he would be held without bond on the Pinellas County warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also explained King will remain in Lee County while he faces the local charges stemming from last week&#8217;s I-75 standoff.<\/p>\n<p>Once those cases are resolved, Pinellas County will have five days to take him into custody to face the homicide charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The suspect accused of causing an hours-long standoff that shut down I-75 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-356120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}